Word: ills
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...better or for worse, for good or for ill. That has always been a part of our definition of Man or Woman of the Year: the person or persons who most affected the news and our lives, for good or for ill, and embodied what was important about the year, for better or for worse. In the major story of 1998, there was plenty of "for worse" on all fronts...
...tuned in to the Howard Stern show two weeks ago. Don't ask, please. Anyway, the bad boy of radio was engaged in some sort of bimbo quiz show in which one judge was mentally ill and, prompted by Stern, trying in vain to elaborate on his scoring. Such "humor" is old hat for Stern. What caught my ear was that this ratings king and cash cow for Infinity Broadcasting was speaking of plans to retire. It was just days before Infinity sold 140 million shares to the public for $3 billion, and raises interesting questions for stockholders--not least...
...taxpayer money and constantly lay off employees. The corporate-welfare series called for drastic changes, but until TIME and the rest of the media stop glorifying the companies and individuals who created and contribute to the problems we now have, no real change can occur. DANIEL RICHARDS Evanston, Ill...
...hope is that Madeleine's bouquet of "countryside, woods, flowers and fruit," as Metro officials described it, will be more agreeable to commuters than the customary combination of industrial fumes and assorted human waste. That distinction apparently did not apply to Madeleine's precursor, Francine, an ill-fated odor that generated more complaints than praise when it was floated in the early 1990s. Five years in the making, Madeleine was designed to be "sweet rather than violent," a scent "that lingered for two weeks and that suggested a feeling of cleanliness and well-being rather than of filthiness being covered...
...impermissibly resembled a quota. I viewed the School Committee's policy as a politically driven compromise, intended to preserve racial diversity while clinging as possible to the use of a questionable standardized test that exacerbates unequal opportunity to learn in the Boston Public School system. The compromise was ill advised. So is the School Committee's decision to appeal to the Supreme court. Their policy was and is a loser. They should go back to the drawing board, and find another way to serve the compelling interest in classroom diversity. Without that diversity, students will graduate ill-prepared...